This
artwork was recently painted, during the second lock down period due to Covid
restrictions in Thessaloniki, Greece.
It is part
of a portrait series, painted by my growing urge to come in contact with the
thing I mostly miss nowadays: faces. Covid has taken expressions, has taken
beauty, has taken lips that smile, spit words, laugh out loud and kiss away
from us. And this series of paintings comes to offer me a placebo, remind me of
the way faces were, when lips and eyes agree, express feelings and whisper to
ones heart.
The whole series is being left unfinished yet
finished in a symbolic attach to everything that is being left unfinished
during this last year. Jobs, affairs, relationships, projects, dreams, trips,
expectations, all hanging loosely, almost floating under the grey pandemic sky,
waiting for the wind to finally blow and clear the clouds…
Fragments IV is painted with oil color on round, stretched canvas.
Inspired by
the photography portraits of Paulina Duczman.
